“Through Innocent Eyes – The Chosen Girls of the Hitler Youth” will be available for sale through Balboapress.com! “Through Innocent Eyes,” reveals the personal life of Gertrude Kerschner, and her journey through self-actualization while serving in the Hitler Youth. Based upon Gertrude’s personal journal, her story includes ceremonies, ancient neo-pagan rituals, traditions, and folklore. Pre-orders…
read moreThe National Socialistic upbringing of the German youths trains these Landjahr girls to build their integral moral character with a foundation based on honor, loyalty, obedience, and discipline. Coupled with ancient neo-pagan rituals, traditions, folklore, and the Totalitarian regime of this period, “Through Innocent Eyes” captures the psychology of an Austrian girl named Trudel, and…
read moreIt has taken me fourteen months to write, edit and format the complete manuscript. Finally, 367 pages, 144,000 words. Currently researching how book publishing industry works. One word of advice: Do not sign any contract with a publisher without investing the money to hire an attorney to review it before you sign it! This small investment will save you thousands…
read moreFor the past eight months, my head has been deep inside the book, writing, editing, researching and writing. My average writing day is 11 hours. This is an incredible journey. I just finished another chapter and I am about to embark on phase two of the book. When I started writing the manuscript, I thought…
read moreI was so dissapointed when my editor emailed me and said she could not look at my manuscript because she is moving. That did not stop me from moving forward however. I am determined to have the manuscript reviewed.
read moreI am SO excited! I finished typing the manuscript into my computer, double and triple checked it for grammer and spelling, then emailed it off to my editor! I believe there is an untapped source of valuable information out there that no one has really addressed – and that is what life was like during…
read moreThe Landjahr (country service year) was a concept of the Hitler Youth and BDM – Bund Deutscher Maedel (League of German Girls), whose aim was to furnish voluntary agricultural assistance in Germany’s eastern provinces. The service was voluntary except in the case of university students who were obliged to perform their Landjahr (it was, in…
read moreI just found this web site today entitled “Landjahr.” Notice closely, the symbol on the front cover of the book on the web site and compare it with the cover of my mother’s book! After 20 years I found what the meaning of this symbol is on the cover of my mother’s book “Land Jahr Seidorf.” …
read moreI just received an email from a personal friend of mine who asked me to elaborate more on the book. Twenty-one years ago, underneath the end table in my parents’ bedroom, I found a very strange hand-made book. The stained green hard cover has a red cloth emblem on the lower right hand corner. It…
read moreToday was an incredible day! I found an editor who has connections with a publisher in California! My editor is guiding me as to the format to use to type the manuscript. I am putting in over 9 hours a day working on the research and manuscript. I should be finished within two weeks. Once…
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